As the daughter of an Air Force family, packing up boxes and moving to new states and cities was routine for CED alum Kristie Person. Big moves sometimes came with challenges for Person, but she quickly discovered that moving could also be a time to discover hidden treasures in the new towns she called home…
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Eric Reisman joins CCDP as FindIt Program Coordinator
Eric Reisman (MHP ’09) has been hired as the newest Coordinator for the FindIt Historic Resource Survey Program. He has over ten years of historic resource survey experience, most recently with the Mississippi State Historic Preservation Office as their survey manager. He begins his new role at CCDP on April 19th. Welcome, Eric!
FindIt creates StoryMaps as Outreach Tool
The Covid-19 Pandemic forced many institutions, organizations, and individuals to rethink “business as usual.” For the FindIt Program, the long-running historic resource survey program within the Center for Community Design & Preservation (CCDP), local shelter-in-place rules provided an opportunity for students to share the results of their architectural fieldwork more broadly.
New Preservation Student Publishes Research
Megan McPherson, a first-year Master of Historic Preservation (MHP) student, came to the program with some bona fide research under her belt with the Georgia Museum of Natural History (GMNH).
FindIt Program Featured in UGAToday
FindIt Program Featured in UGAToday
UGA Students Document Georgia’s Historic Gems
Using a mix of paper surveys, digital mapping, and even a hand-crafted “junk journal,” students in the FindIt Historic Resource Survey documented nearly 3,000 historic properties in Meriwether County, capturing pieces of Georgia’s history in creative and meaningful ways.
Summer Rewind: FindIt Students Explore Georgia’s Historic Resources
This summer, another class of Master of Historic Preservation students entered FindIt, a state-wide cultural resource survey program created to help document historic resources throughout Georgia and facilitate their preservation. […]
Preserving place: UGA’s FindIt program brings new life to Monticello’s history
UGA’s FindIt program partnered with the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission to survey Monticello’s historic district, documenting 400 properties.
